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in Hong Kong was attributable to the persecution of patriotic Chinese citizens by the Hong Kong British
authorities. These citizens had been forced to make a
stand in their own interests. In this they had the
support of the Chinese people.
The Chinese Government
had taken a restrained attitude towards the Hong Kong
question. Yet for the past year or so the British
authorities in Hong Kong had persecuted and arrested
many Chinese citizens on trumped up charges. At present
some 300 Chinese people, including the eleven journalists,
were still imprisoned in Hong Kong, some in concentration
camps. The British authorities had also dished up a series
of so-called emergency regulations. The effect of these
measures was to stimulate resistance among the Chinese in
Hong Kong and also to arouse strong feel ings in China.
Even bourgeois British lawyers in Hong Kong had referred
to some of the emergency regulations as barbarous. They
were totalitarian and represented a reign of terror.
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Lord Shepherd said that clearly these were points
on which it was necessary to agree to disagree. But if
Britain were as vicious as Shen P'ing had suggested it
was strange that Chinese Communist papers were still
published in Hong Kong and that more and more Chinese there
were able to go to Chinese Communist schools.
Surely,
if we were as vicious as the Charge had suggested, we would
not allow such a state of affairs to continue? If the
Hong Kong police had used unnecessary force at any time he would be among the first ta dodoma Mes
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